Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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